Category: Sculpture

Yes, its been a while since my last post.  Unfortunately, 2 weeks ago, after we had our 3″ snowfall, I was on my way down to the shop and fell flat on my a**, slipping on a patch of driveway ice.  OUCH!  My butt still hurts!  Anyway, setting here shifting around on my Whoopie cushion,…

As I’ve posted all the digital photos I’ve taken over the years, I thought I’d complete the inventory by trying to bring in the carvings that I photographed with my old Pentax SLR camera.  As you can see by the photo below, I’ve got quite a few characters pigeoned holed in that box.  It will…

Here is the rest of this little project.  Later on we’ll address how to carve the body.  Hope you enjoyed the journey!

As the New Year starts tomorrow, I thought maybe you would be ready for something NEW.  Years before we started posting videos, I took individual photos of the pieces  which showed the progression when carving a character.  So, going back quite a few years, here is one which might be interesting to start with.  Now,…

Well, it’s been quite some time since I made a post here so I guess I’d better try and catch up. The reason I’ve been absent, besides the spring and summer chores that seem to never end around here, is because Judy and I have been invited to show my carvings at the Cody Old…

I finished this carving last week.  So the next step is determining just how to present it.   As I’ve done a number of Chuck Wagon Cooks in the past I want to make this one unique from those.  Now I could just mount him on a base by himself but by adding another detail apart…

I’ve used this pose several times in the past.  To this one I added the hangman’s rope and noose to create a little mystery to the piece.  The rope is made out of twisted wire and while I don’t think I was able to wrap the knot with the regulation 13 times I still think…

Not much to say about this fella as I’ve done so many Cowboys over the years there is not really anything that new about him.  He’s is a lot larger than my normal figure, standing about 20″ with the base.  He’s heading to the big show in Santa Fe so I wanted him a size…

I’m still in the process of clearing heads off the workbench so with this one I thought it would be a reasonable representation of the Mountain Man Jim Bridger, or Old Gabe as he was known.   Naturally, a little artistic license will be used to make the figure more interesting but that’s okay, at least…

Just finished working on this one yesterday.  The carved feather was still wet with primer so I used a real one for the photo.  I tried something new this time by adding some beaded piping along the edge where the body of the shirt meets the fringe of the sleeve.  Should look pretty good when…